Management is awful. Worked with Diane. Very crude, inflexible, and rude. Bitch to the core. Here are things to know:
1. The walls are extremely thin. The layout is a bit horrid. You will not notice this until the night you move in. The bedrooms are adjacent's to your neighbors living room. As a result, if your neighbors stay awake past 2am and plays his stereo, you will DEFINITELY hear it. Trust me, I have this problem with my neighbors. Also, you WILL hear your neighbors above.
2. Location of the apartment is too close to 16th street. If you love sleeping in on Saturday mornings, forget it. With parades and the band playing outside at 8am like every other saturday during the summer, it is not gonna happen.
3. When you terminate your lease with a required 2 months noticed, they will start giving tours of your apartment to "future" residents. This does not require your approval. Read your contract carefully. Your apartment for the next 2 months will be their museum tour for future prospects. More or less, it feels like breaking and entering by people who you do not know and they say that you can not do anything about it (refer to comments by management). Honestly, do you want some stranger to come into your apartment without your approval?
4. Door people are generally nice (Doris and Darlene), but Jerry is a control freak. For a guy who makes probably less than 30K, he acts like he owns the place. Very moody.. sometimes, he is nice, sometimes he is an ass.
5. Maintenance are straight up people. They do try. But, again, this is an old building. For example, dryer takes 3 hours to dry your clothes and my doors are still not fixed.
6. As for safety and location, the apartment is not well lit. If I had kids and the corner street is a bit scary at night...
As a wrap, this apartment charges a hell of a price to live; but with all the headaches, honestly, you do not want to live here.
Good luck,